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1385173 No.1385173 [Reply] [Original]

Semi-colons are pretentious; prove me wrong.

>> No.1385179
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1385179

I saw a video where Kurt Vonnegut called semicolons "transvestite hermaphrodites."

I'm not proving you wrong. I just thought I'd share.

>> No.1385182

>>1385179

I can't help but hate Vonnegut quotes... Sorry brah...

>> No.1385183

>>Pretentious being /lit/speak for over one's head
>>OP uses semi-colon unnecessarily

done here

>> No.1385184

so is capitalization

and periods at the end of paragraphs are pretty unnecessary too, so theyre pretentious, too

oh, and apostrophes in contractions. thats fucked

>> No.1385189

No; fuck you.

>> No.1385190

What I needed was to go and have a club sandwich, a piece of cheesecake, and a seven-up at my favorite delicatessen for lunch; badmouth my sister Wanda, sit back in an easy chair, and laugh away the rest of the afternoon at Suzy's house; and come home early from work to have a nice long dinner, make love to my husband, and get some extra reading done before bed, if I wanted to remain sane.

Yes, it's shitty and random, but my point is if you want to list things with commas in them you need, you guessed it: SEMICOLONS.

>> No.1385194

Herp. Never mind, I like the dash better:
What I needed was to go and have a club sandwich, a piece of cheesecake, and a seven-up at my favorite delicatessen for lunch; badmouth my sister Wanda, sit back in an easy chair, and laugh away the rest of the afternoon at Suzy's house; and come home early from work to have a nice long dinner, make love to my husband, and get some extra reading done before bed—if I wanted to remain sane.

>> No.1385196
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1385196

>>1385190

>implying that sentence is even grammatically correct

>> No.1385197

>>1385173

>prove me wrong.

Doesn't bother me in the least if you feel you're in the right, OP.

>> No.1385200

>>1385197

The OP was made in jest so as to deliberately provoke discussion. Don't know what spergy shit you're trying to pull here exactly.

>> No.1385215

>>1385173

>Prove me wrong thread

There should be a rule against this shit. Oh wait! There is!

>> No.1385223

I agree wholeheartedly.

>> No.1386871

bump

>> No.1386875

i kind of feel like a semi-colon whereas most people are commas

>> No.1386896
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1386896

A simple dash works just as well; some people just prefer a semicolon.

>> No.1386911

>>1386875
is that a quote?

>> No.1386912

>;
>Pretentious

;_;